"Only a trained eye can tell the difference between the original painting and a good copy.",
"For decorating, they rely on her discerning eye .",
"He has an artist's eye for color.",
"He reviewed the proposal with a jaundiced eye .",
"The biographer cast a cold eye on the artist's life.",
"Verb",
"I saw someone eyeing me from across the street.",
"a lot of his backyard bird watching was spent eyeing the squirrels as they depleted the bird feeder of seeds",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"What eye can trace them, in their varied wanton amorous chaces, bounding and fluttering on the odiferous air! \u2014 Annie Proulx, The New Yorker , 27 June 2022",
"The five sessions have revealed a storyteller's eye , with focus, clarity, a ... \u2014 David Bauder, ajc , 27 June 2022",
"Colorful Mario Kart landscapes careen through the mind\u2019s eye as two adult gamers name-drop their favorite virtual racing courses: Sherbet Land, Choco Mountain, Rainbow Road. \u2014 Celia Wren, Washington Post , 27 June 2022",
"Looking more widely, the minor battery increases to the rest of the range are also eye -opening. \u2014 Gordon Kelly, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"Eva Marcille's beauty look came courtesy makeup artist Terrell Mullin, who created one of the most all-out glamorous eye lash moments of the night. \u2014 Allure Staff, Allure , 26 June 2022",
"For a Saturday morning children\u2019s show, the number of rising stars who passed through Pee-wee\u2019s Playhouse is a marvel \u2014 and indicative of just how developed an eye Paul Reubens had for spotting emerging talent. \u2014 Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter , 26 June 2022",
"The tiny creature was made from a real seashell, doll shoes, a spot of clay and a googly eye . \u2014 Selome Hailu, Variety , 24 June 2022",
"Meanwhile, China is spending eye -watering amounts of cash to keep the ideology alive. \u2014 Selina Wang, CNN , 24 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Sunshine rules, for the most part, as high temperatures eye a range of low to mid-70s for most of the region. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Apr. 2022",
"To the east, China continues to eye an invasion of Taiwan, which many U.S. officials predict is likely by 2027. \u2014 Roger Wicker, National Review , 18 Feb. 2022",
"These are major decisions for Key as England desperately eye a turnaround in what has been a rather feeble recent Test chapter. \u2014 Tristan Lavalette, Forbes , 24 Apr. 2022",
"Key senators eye new, more ambitious legislation to lower insulin prices. \u2014 Nicholas Florko, STAT , 9 Apr. 2022",
"In the meantime, the rush to create SPACs has evaporated as investors eye a crowded field and regulators take a harder line. \u2014 Julia Horowitz, CNN , 1 Apr. 2022",
"At the conference, junior scholars would nervously eye one another in the elevators, trying to figure out who might be headed to which suite. \u2014 Jacob Brogan, Washington Post , 14 Mar. 2022",
"While American oil and gas companies eye new opportunities in Europe, German lawmakers want to accelerate the transition to wind and solar. \u2014 Leah Garden, The New Republic , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Dedinkin tells us that the tag sale stopped just as Stalin\u2019s money men began to eye the Morozov things. \u2014 Brian T. Allen, National Review , 3 Mar. 2022"
"Middle English, from Old English \u0113age ; akin to Old High German ouga eye, Latin oculus , Greek \u014dps eye, face, Sanskrit ak\u1e63i eye":"Noun"
"The bird\u2019s eye view of the race could come down to those two programs, but there are other entities with a shot at gold. \u2014 Michael Schneider, Variety , 2 May 2022",
"From the gondolas, riders get a view of the New York skyline, the New Jersey Meadowlands and the Hackensack River, and the New Jersey Turnpike, as well as a bird\u2019s eye view of the 3-million square foot American Dream complex, and Metlife Stadium. \u2014 Joan Verdon, Forbes , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Throughout, readers have a bird\u2019s eye view of segregated American troops in Britain and how U.S. military police worked to keep the races apart, both on and off military bases. \u2014 Washington Post , 26 Mar. 2022",
"The audience\u2019s vantage point \u2014 a bird\u2019s- eye view \u2014 is critical. \u2014 Deborah Vankin Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 23 Aug. 2021",
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s annual HIV Surveillance Report, published Tuesday, provides the first major bird\u2019s- eye view of the turn the country\u2019s four-decade-old epidemic took after the coronavirus upended society. \u2014 Benjamin Ryan, NBC News , 24 May 2022",
"Instead of taking a bird\u2019s- eye view , Shuang places his gaze at the level of his characters. \u2014 New York Times , 19 Apr. 2022",
"The legal delay likely to come will give a bird\u2019s- eye view of why unions represent just 6% of the private sector workforce. \u2014 Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times , 8 Apr. 2022",
"The band\u2019s bird\u2019s- eye view of the human condition has always been a dark one, and Haake still doesn\u2019t have high hopes for mankind\u2019s overall trajectory. \u2014 Hank Shteamer, Rolling Stone , 15 Mar. 2022"
": to look at intently especially in making an evaluation or choice":[
"diners eyeballing the menu",
"eyeball the competition"
]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"The children were eyeballing the desserts.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"That is, a very early digitized photo of Poor\u2019s eyeball , which seemed almost impossible to pull off at the time. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Mar. 2022",
"At the company\u2019s San Diego headquarters, ARC produced a hologram of an eyeball , which spun so it could be examined from various angles. \u2014 Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 Nov. 2021",
"Lambourn removes an eyeball the size of a grapefruit. \u2014 Peter Wayne Moe, Longreads , 25 Feb. 2022",
"This 30-foot structure of an eyeball by Tony Tasset sits outside The Joule hotel in downtown Dallas. \u2014 Kristi Eaton, Chron , 13 Sep. 2021",
"The paintings range from abstracts and landscapes to specific objects, such as an eyeball or a cube. \u2014 Sam Boyer, cleveland , 26 Sep. 2021",
"That becomes evident as flies, just like the one that once perched itself on Dolores' eyeball in the season 1 premiere, swarm around the characters. \u2014 Nick Romano, EW.com , 10 May 2022",
"The gas and electric power sources combine for an insane 680 horsepower, which in our testing was enough to send the 2018 Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid to 60 mph in an eyeball -flattening 2.9 seconds. \u2014 Austin Irwin, Car and Driver , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Glenn, brutally murdered by Negan, his eyeball popping out of his skull like some grotesque cartoon death. \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Don\u2019t eyeball it \u2014 use measuring cups and spoons and level them off with the flat side of a knife. \u2014 Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic , 16 Apr. 2022",
"Download apps, such as GasBuddy, Gas Guru, and AAA, for free to eyeball the going rate. \u2014 Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press , 1 Mar. 2022",
"Don't eyeball your cocktail ingredients Just as with baking, precision makes a difference in a lot of craft cocktails. \u2014 Dana Mcmahan, The Courier-Journal , 11 Jan. 2022",
"With a rise in offers of bogus vaccination cards, vendors will have to eyeball each one for forgeries. \u2014 Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle , 13 Aug. 2021",
"With a rise in offers of bogus vaccination proof around the world, some California campuses, including San Francisco State University, have hired vendors to eyeball each card for signs of anything amiss. \u2014 Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle , 13 Aug. 2021",
"So when the researchers then took DyRET outside onto novel terrain, the robot could eyeball the ground with its camera and sense the give beneath its feet with the force sensors. \u2014 Matt Simon, Wired , 15 Mar. 2021",
"That hasn\u2019t happened, in large part because most shoppers prefer to squeeze their produce and eyeball their steaks. \u2014 Matt Day, Bloomberg.com , 18 Nov. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Sure, in some locales there is an eyeball war that takes place. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
"Not that the Spartans aren\u2019t already eyeball deep in it, with their annual nonconference gauntlet slowly coming to an end. \u2014 Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press , 7 Dec. 2021",
"An assortment of artwork on the walls, ranging from an eyeball abstract and alligator collage to photos of buoys and herons. \u2014 Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al , 18 Aug. 2021",
"The eyeball view through the windshield was a different story, with darkness providing an effective camouflage. \u2014 Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press , 25 Oct. 2020",
"Parents in Berkeley, California, may soon be spared having their kids at eyeball level with candy and other sugar-laden temptations waiting in the checkout lines of the city's larger retail stores. \u2014 Kate Gibson, CBS News , 25 Sep. 2020",
"Teal pumpkins on display indicate that a house has non-food treats such as glow-sticks or eyeball bouncy balls for trick-or-treaters. \u2014 Karina Bland, azcentral , 31 Oct. 2019",
"The mask was accessorized with sunglasses, a dinner jacket, a Residents eyeball T-shirt, and Under Armour sweatpants. \u2014 Sarah Larson, The New Yorker , 3 Feb. 2020",
"The usual blood splatter, witch claws, and bloody eyeball nails have made their way into the collective, while new designs, including our dear friend Penny Wise, are extremely popular this year. \u2014 Shalwah Evans, Essence , 3 Oct. 2019"
"In the overall timeline of getting meat, firing the gun is little more than an eye blink . \u2014 David James, Anchorage Daily News , 28 Aug. 2021",
"Defunding police won\u2019t get an eye blink \u2019s consideration in Florida, but a coalition of conservative groups has been questioning ever-increasing state and local law enforcement, courts and corrections costs for more than a half-decade. \u2014 Washington Examiner , 10 June 2020",
"Dowd\u2019s father said with a chuckle, his eyes blinking away tears. \u2014 Matthias Gafni, SFChronicle.com , 23 Apr. 2020",
"That point occurred roughly 100 million years before the solar system formed, an eye blink in astronomical time scales. \u2014 Nola Taylor Redd, Scientific American , 27 Mar. 2020",
"Glasses made by Optalert measure the driver\u2019s eye blinking with an LED light monitor. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Feb. 2020",
"Removing Asia Durr from the University of Louisville women\u2019s basketball team has resulted in a period of adjustment that might be measured in eye blinks . \u2014 Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal , 1 Mar. 2020",
"The way his eyes blink wide open illustrate the feeling of suddenly remembering something. \u2014 Rachel E. Greenspan, Time , 19 Sep. 2019",
"In less time than an eye blink , these mysterious objects can release enough energy to power the world for three centuries. \u2014 Seth Shostak, NBC News , 3 Sep. 2019"
"The families snacking on the lunch buffet that Wednesday were getting an eyeful . \u2014 Tim Zimmermann, Outside Online , 30 July 2010",
"In a moment of instantaneous recognition, an eyeful of singular automotive icons leaves the group speechless. \u2014 Basem Wasef, Robb Report , 15 Feb. 2022",
"The cast is huge and hugely talented, the sets and costumes are an eyeful , and the stage effects are cleverly inventive. \u2014 Marilyn Stasio, Variety , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Ten years ago, showgoers got an eyeful of the iPotty, a toilet training device for kids that had an iPad attached to it. \u2014 Chris Morris, Fortune , 7 Jan. 2022",
"The golf equipment cognoscenti got their first eyeful of TaylorMade\u2019s next generation driver at the PNC Championship at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club in Orlando. \u2014 Mike Dojc, Forbes , 4 Jan. 2022",
"Moody, who brings Notre Dame students into stores like Empire Professional Pharmacy in Glen Burnie for the clinical component of the program, said the aspiring pharmacists are getting an eyeful . \u2014 Jean Marbella, baltimoresun.com , 23 Nov. 2021",
"As the sun sets and sailboats and ferries drift by, a spectator gets a hypnotic eyeful of the city\u2019s liquid border. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Aug. 2021",
"For the cap and gown recipient who loves fashion, there\u2019s an eyeful of trendy options on the market that are also on sale due to Memorial Day Weekend sneaking up. \u2014 Nandi Howard, Essence , 26 May 2021"
": a device used to correct defects of vision or to protect the eyes that consists typically of a pair of glass or plastic lenses and the frame by which they are held in place : glasses":[],
"In the last month, bandits stole more than $20,000 in merchandise at a Virginia eyeglass store outside of Washington D.C. \u2014 Adam Shaw, Fox News , 1 June 2022",
"Another man with the condition required multiple eyeglass prescriptions, shifting even between nearsightedness and farsightedness in the span of a day. \u2014 Joe Didonato, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Related Video Warby Parker was one of the original direct-to-consumer brands, but now, the eyeglass -maker\u2019s sales are split about evenly between its more than 140 bricks-and-mortar locations and its online store. \u2014 Charity L. Scott, WSJ , 17 Mar. 2022",
"At one eyeglass store in Alexandria, a man used a hammer to smash glass display cases and the group escaped with Gucci products and a tray of sunglasses worth more than $17,000. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Last week, at least two eyeglass stores in Chicago were broken into overnight and robbed of designer frames, FOX32 Chicago reported. \u2014 Fox News , 7 Feb. 2022",
"Warby Parker, the eyeglass retailer, has also seen its shares plunge 40 percent in recent months, as its once rapid growth has started to slow. \u2014 NBC News , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Satisfied for the moment, Mr. Grint turned his attention to picking an eyeglass frame, moving through the store shyly, unassumingly, never asking for help, but also never declining it. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Just as eyeglass lenses can focus near or far, so can the scientists tune a magnetic field. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 3 Mar. 2022"
": a device used to correct defects of vision or to protect the eyes that consists typically of a pair of glass or plastic lenses and the frame by which they are held in place : glasses":[],
"In the last month, bandits stole more than $20,000 in merchandise at a Virginia eyeglass store outside of Washington D.C. \u2014 Adam Shaw, Fox News , 1 June 2022",
"Another man with the condition required multiple eyeglass prescriptions, shifting even between nearsightedness and farsightedness in the span of a day. \u2014 Joe Didonato, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Related Video Warby Parker was one of the original direct-to-consumer brands, but now, the eyeglass -maker\u2019s sales are split about evenly between its more than 140 bricks-and-mortar locations and its online store. \u2014 Charity L. Scott, WSJ , 17 Mar. 2022",
"At one eyeglass store in Alexandria, a man used a hammer to smash glass display cases and the group escaped with Gucci products and a tray of sunglasses worth more than $17,000. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Last week, at least two eyeglass stores in Chicago were broken into overnight and robbed of designer frames, FOX32 Chicago reported. \u2014 Fox News , 7 Feb. 2022",
"Warby Parker, the eyeglass retailer, has also seen its shares plunge 40 percent in recent months, as its once rapid growth has started to slow. \u2014 NBC News , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Satisfied for the moment, Mr. Grint turned his attention to picking an eyeglass frame, moving through the store shyly, unassumingly, never asking for help, but also never declining it. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Just as eyeglass lenses can focus near or far, so can the scientists tune a magnetic field. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 3 Mar. 2022"
"For bread, all vanished into an emptiness thirsty as old iron, a plowshare Left in a fallow field for decades beside a snakeskin wound through the eyehole Of a steer\u2019s skull. \u2014 The New Yorker , 17 Jan. 2022",
"Arredondo-Brock\u2019s piece really opens up when one looks inside the eyeholes of the mask and sees a stream of words in the form of thought bubbles that have been created inside. \u2014 Darryl Ratcliff, Dallas News , 27 Jan. 2020",
"Cut eyeholes in your pumpkin, and attach plastic eyeballs (available at party supply stores) inside the sockets to give the face a spooky stare. \u2014 Woman's Day Staff, Woman's Day , 9 Sep. 2019",
"On the book\u2019s cover, a rabbit residing in the hollow head of a hawk-nosed mannequin-man peers out through an eyehole at dangers that are left unspecified. \u2014 Joel Smith, The New York Review of Books , 18 Apr. 2019",
"To re-create, simply roll out the clay and cut into circles using a cookie cutter or knife. Poke two eyeholes and drape over foam craft balls or ping pong balls to dry. \u2014 Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living , 2 Oct. 2018",
"There is nothing silly about what these women are up to, and yet we are supposed to laugh at the concept of Hendricks in a face mask, her sparkling blue eyes radiating out from the eyeholes . \u2014 Rachel Syme, The New Republic , 28 Feb. 2018",
"The soft-foam helmet has black eye inserts shaped like eggs and tilted out so that the bottoms splay outward to keep the eyeholes from falling in on themselves when the sheet is on top. \u2014 Tim Grierson, Popular Mechanics , 26 Feb. 2018"
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": a triangular piece of beef cut from between the top and bottom of a round":[],
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"\u2014 often used in plural an offender in the eyes of the law"
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"a batter with a good eye"
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"\u2014 Norman Mailer"
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"they eyed him suspiciously"
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"eyeing changes in the stock market"
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"with an eye to the future"
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"built the house with an eye to adding on later"
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"Noun",
"Her eyes slowly became accustomed to the dark.",
"He wears a patch over one eye .",
"I have something in my eye .",
"Only a trained eye can tell the difference between the original painting and a good copy.",
"For decorating, they rely on her discerning eye .",
"He has an artist's eye for color.",
"He reviewed the proposal with a jaundiced eye .",
"The biographer cast a cold eye on the artist's life.",
"Verb",
"I saw someone eyeing me from across the street.",
"a lot of his backyard bird watching was spent eyeing the squirrels as they depleted the bird feeder of seeds",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"What eye can trace them, in their varied wanton amorous chaces, bounding and fluttering on the odiferous air! \u2014 Annie Proulx, The New Yorker , 27 June 2022",
"The five sessions have revealed a storyteller's eye , with focus, clarity, a ... \u2014 David Bauder, ajc , 27 June 2022",
"Colorful Mario Kart landscapes careen through the mind\u2019s eye as two adult gamers name-drop their favorite virtual racing courses: Sherbet Land, Choco Mountain, Rainbow Road. \u2014 Celia Wren, Washington Post , 27 June 2022",
"Looking more widely, the minor battery increases to the rest of the range are also eye -opening. \u2014 Gordon Kelly, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"Eva Marcille's beauty look came courtesy makeup artist Terrell Mullin, who created one of the most all-out glamorous eye lash moments of the night. \u2014 Allure Staff, Allure , 26 June 2022",
"For a Saturday morning children\u2019s show, the number of rising stars who passed through Pee-wee\u2019s Playhouse is a marvel \u2014 and indicative of just how developed an eye Paul Reubens had for spotting emerging talent. \u2014 Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter , 26 June 2022",
"The tiny creature was made from a real seashell, doll shoes, a spot of clay and a googly eye . \u2014 Selome Hailu, Variety , 24 June 2022",
"Meanwhile, China is spending eye -watering amounts of cash to keep the ideology alive. \u2014 Selina Wang, CNN , 24 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Sunshine rules, for the most part, as high temperatures eye a range of low to mid-70s for most of the region. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Apr. 2022",
"To the east, China continues to eye an invasion of Taiwan, which many U.S. officials predict is likely by 2027. \u2014 Roger Wicker, National Review , 18 Feb. 2022",
"These are major decisions for Key as England desperately eye a turnaround in what has been a rather feeble recent Test chapter. \u2014 Tristan Lavalette, Forbes , 24 Apr. 2022",
"Key senators eye new, more ambitious legislation to lower insulin prices. \u2014 Nicholas Florko, STAT , 9 Apr. 2022",
"In the meantime, the rush to create SPACs has evaporated as investors eye a crowded field and regulators take a harder line. \u2014 Julia Horowitz, CNN , 1 Apr. 2022",
"At the conference, junior scholars would nervously eye one another in the elevators, trying to figure out who might be headed to which suite. \u2014 Jacob Brogan, Washington Post , 14 Mar. 2022",
"While American oil and gas companies eye new opportunities in Europe, German lawmakers want to accelerate the transition to wind and solar. \u2014 Leah Garden, The New Republic , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Dedinkin tells us that the tag sale stopped just as Stalin\u2019s money men began to eye the Morozov things. \u2014 Brian T. Allen, National Review , 3 Mar. 2022"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a(1)":"Verb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
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"Middle English, from Old English \u0113age ; akin to Old High German ouga eye, Latin oculus , Greek \u014dps eye, face, Sanskrit ak\u1e63i eye":"Noun"
"Until the government decided last week that Cairo\u2019s few remaining houseboats were an eyesore and had to be removed. \u2014 Paul Schemm, Washington Post , 2 July 2022",
"The latest Prep Baseball Report/Kentucky High School Baseball Coaches Association poll was an eyesore for several Louisville teams that saw their momentum cut short during last week's Louisville Invitational Tournament. \u2014 J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Child playmats found in the general market are a bit of an eyesore . \u2014 Tiffany Leigh, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"To Keyhayova, the makeshift dunk pool was an eyesore . \u2014 Marni Elyse Katz, BostonGlobe.com , 5 June 2022",
"Many people at the time, including myself, were quick to call the notch an eyesore and unbefitting of an Apple product. \u2014 Yoni Heisler, BGR , 25 May 2022",
"Most pool heaters are large and cumbersome, but the EcoSmart Smart Pool has a compact tankless design that won\u2019t be as much of an eyesore in your yard. \u2014 Camryn Rabideau, Popular Mechanics , 19 May 2022",
"Though some might find the keypad a bit of an eyesore , the lock\u2019s housing comes in a variety of sleek finishes, including matte black, polished chrome, satin nickel and Venetian bronze. \u2014 Dan Diclerico, Good Housekeeping , 10 May 2022",
"For at least 15 years, the three-story home at 103 Earle St. was an eyesore \u2013 a rotted blight in the neighborhood that sits in the city\u2019s northeast end. \u2014 Ted Glanzer, Hartford Courant , 14 May 2022"
": a simple visual organ of pigment or pigmented cells covering a sensory termination : ocellus":[],
": a small pigmented body of various unicellular algae":[],
": a usually small spot of color (as on the wing of a butterfly) that resembles an eye":[],
": any of several fungal diseases of cultivated grasses (such as corn, wheat, and sugarcane) characterized by yellowish oval lesions on the leaves and stem":[]
"The eyespot is studded with light-sensitive proteins called channelrhodopsins. \u2014 Marc Zimmer, The Conversation , 5 Aug. 2021",
"Some of the earliest renditions might have been a simple pit eye, a kind of pit of tissue lined with light receptors, or what scientists call an eyespot , a simple region that detects light. \u2014 Leslie Nemo, Scientific American , 19 May 2021",
"It\u2019s a creepy little critter, with a single, distinctive black eyespot at the head of one to four spines. \u2014 Popular Science , 17 Feb. 2021",
"During two days in October, these break off from the rest of the worm, and using an eyespot within, swim toward the surface\u2014and the light of the moon. \u2014 Douglas Main, National Geographic , 17 Apr. 2019",
"Scientists suspect eyespots first evolved in Jurassic lacewings and then a second time in modern butterflies. \u2014 Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian , 7 June 2019",
"Butterflies use the eyespots on their hindwings not for stealth but to scare away potential predators. \u2014 Carrie Arnold, National Geographic , 21 Dec. 2016",
"Dakin repeated part of Petrie\u2019s eyespot -snipping experiment. \u2014 Susan Milius, WIRED , 27 Apr. 2011"
"The regiment earned renown for leading thousands of men in the July 18, 1863, storming of Fort Wagner, an eyetooth in the jaw of defenses around Charleston Harbor. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Dec. 2020",
"Audra\u2019s prodigious knowledge of people\u2019s names, faces and bewildering, often pointless personal details \u2014 that someone recently broke an eyetooth on a bagel, for example \u2014 is an animating force in the book. \u2014 Lydia Kiesling, New York Times , 7 July 2017",
"He says he'll quit his job, but we know that's just eyewash .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Meanwhile, the Rooney Rule, which requires teams to interview minority candidates for head coaching and senior football leadership positions, has become toothless, modern-day eyewash . \u2014 Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 2 Feb. 2022",
"It was regularly infested with pigeons and other animals (which had to be wrangled out annually), and was outfitted with eyewash stations only in 2018, after numerous requests from various teams. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 25 Sep. 2021",
"The Sox were losing for the 11th time in 14 games, turning a five-game lead into a five-game deficit after giving us nothing more than a little eyewash at the trade deadline. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 13 Aug. 2021",
"In 2010, the farm was fined $305 for repeatedly failing to post that information and for failing to provide workers with an eyewash station when pesticides were being used that could cause irreversible eye damage. \u2014 oregonlive , 1 July 2021",
"Chemical showers and eyewash stations loomed; sometimes, in a distant room, a dot-matrix printer burred. \u2014 Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker , 28 Sep. 2020",
"Gleason Elementary School and Post Elementary will also receive eyewash stations. \u2014 Chevall Pryce, Houston Chronicle , 10 Mar. 2020",
"Instead, pack along some sterile emergency eyewash . \u2014 Richard Mann, Field & Stream , 18 Feb. 2020",
"San Diego let nine months pass between flushing the eyewash stations. \u2014 Joy Resmovits, latimes.com , 25 Apr. 2018"
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"cotton candy",
"tinsel"
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"examples":[
"A lot of the material on their website is just eye candy .",
"a fashionable portrait painter in his day, he is now regarded as a minor purveyor of eye candy",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Maybe the hullabaloo about being a digital native or an AI native is merely eye candy and nothing more. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 12 June 2022",
"But aside from standing out on your vanity, the brand\u2019s signature look goes deeper than just being eye candy . \u2014 Jessica Radloff, Glamour , 26 Apr. 2022",
"For epic underwater landscapes and even more aquatic eye candy , book a private scuba tour with a local dive company. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Mar. 2022",
"Only an average villain and a lot of dark, eye candy . \u2014 Troy L. Smith, cleveland , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Other eye candy includes a shimmering array of costumes flowing from William Ivey Long, including a trick wedding dress that deserves it own bow. \u2014 Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com , 18 Nov. 2021",
"Lei\u2019s eye-catching bonbons in unique and varied flavors take a leap beyond everyday Instagrammable eye candy and deliver subtle, pleasing flavor bombs packed inside impossibly thin chocolate shells. \u2014 Lisa Futterman, chicagotribune.com , 2 Feb. 2022",
"With Multiverse of Madness, Marvel has the chance to offer fans all sorts of exciting eye candy . \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Timothy Nelson\u2019s clever direction is jam-packed with creativity and scenic eye candy designed by Tim Wallace that keeps the audience engaged throughout the production\u2019s three hours. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 14 Feb. 2022"
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"first_known_use":{
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"noun"
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"Historically, anyone who dares to give pro athletes mental advice\u2014be they M.D.s, psychologists or shamans\u2014often gets the eye roll or the pat on the back.",
"\u2014 Jaimal Yogis",
"Contempt, one of the emotions Gottman watches for at the Love Lab, is detectable through the \u2026 buccinator, which pulls the lip corners to the side and creates a distinctly uncute dimple; it's often combined with an upward eye roll .",
"\u2014 Casey Greenfield",
"His stories always took their time, his daughter said, and usually some winding turns, too. His family's eye-rolls only made him go slower.",
"\u2014 Peter Schworm",
"\"Mom!\" She gave me the parents-are-weird eye-roll . The truth is, though, she's proud of me.",
"\u2014 Katha Pollitt"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In addition to being smudge- and humidty-proof, this eyebrow pencil is vegan, waterproof, and refillable, which plays a small role in cutting back on environmental beauty waste. \u2014 Harper's Bazaar Staff, Harper's BAZAAR , 3 June 2022",
"Of course, the curl bounce mascara and eyebrow pencil from Maybelline. \u2014 Ana Escalante, Glamour , 18 Apr. 2022",
"What is the eyebrow pencil , blush, and gloss beauty hack",
"Instead of grabbing an eyebrow pencil to fill in her arches, Shields prefers to use the Prismacolor Ebony Graphite Drawing Pencil used by artists for sketching \u2014 and unauthorized by makeup pros. \u2014 Kaitlyn Frey, PEOPLE.com , 22 Dec. 2021",
"First, a patient and their doctor will work together with an eyebrow pencil to figure out the look that the patient wants. \u2014 Korin Miller, Health.com , 22 Nov. 2021",
"So, Donnie will want to use a blender sponge or even my eyebrow pencil . \u2014 Robyn Merrett, PEOPLE.com , 1 Oct. 2021",
"My approach to makeup throughout quarantine has been quite minimal, save for the occasional eye makeup to hide my fatigue (a touch of concealer, mascara, and a bit of eyebrow pencil ). \u2014 Akili King, Vogue , 10 May 2021",
"Precision, precision, precision is the name of the game for this eyebrow pencil . \u2014 Sarai Thompson, CNN Underscored , 9 Mar. 2021"
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"Other news anchors read the news. Wilson instructed you. He gave you the impression he had some things to tell you, and you'd be wise to sit up, pipe down and pay attention. And, if it was one of those stories that piqued his ever-vigilant sense of outrage, there was likely to be eye-rolling , deep sighs, and even some head-shaking at the ridiculousness of it all.",
"\u2014 C. W. Nevius",
"We are out for lunch, waiting patiently for our food. We are probably discussing something important \u2026 Either way, when the food hits the table, I will shush you, I will move my plate to the part of the restaurant with the most natural light, and I will take a picture. No amount of eye rolling will make me feel remorse. You think I am a monster. You are wrong.",
"\u2014 Josh Scherer"
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"\u02c8\u012b-\u02ccbrau\u0307"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Work practices that seemed unthinkable yesterday don\u2019t raise an eyebrow today. \u2014 Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes , 20 May 2022",
"Schumacher also brought one of the more eyebrow -raising costume changes to a superhero film by famously putting nipples on the Batsuit. \u2014 Lauren Huff, EW.com , 7 June 2022",
"Kathleen Kennedy\u2014president of Lucasfilm, and thus, head honcho of any and everything related to Star Wars and everyone's favorite galaxy far, far, away\u2014made an eyebrow -raising statement in a recent Vanity Fair cover story. \u2014 Evan Romano, Men's Health , 6 June 2022",
"In the first photo, Theroux looked at the camera, wearing a suit and raising one eyebrow as his dog, Kuma, sat beside him in the background. \u2014 Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com , 8 Dec. 2021",
"May had a bump on his head and a cut near one eyebrow . \u2014 John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune , 28 Nov. 2021",
"Thurston, 30, shared an Instagram Story video with one eyebrow filled in using her go-to brow pencil (more on that later) while leaving the other one totally bare so her followers could see the dramatic difference. \u2014 Kaitlyn Frey, PEOPLE.com , 5 Aug. 2021",
"The Browns made an eyebrow -raising trade down of 24 spots with the Texans and took themselves out of the running of receivers George Pickens, Skyy Moore and John Metchie. \u2014 Tim Bielik, cleveland , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Other Malibu homes have sold for similarly eyebrow -raising sums in recent years. \u2014 Katherine Clarke, WSJ , 28 Apr. 2022"
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": any of a genus ( Euphrasia ) of semiparasitic herbs of the snapdragon family with spikelike racemes":[]
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"1538, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-095959"
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a bolt with a looped head":[]
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"\u02c8\u012b-\u02c8b\u014dlt"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Double up your rope and thread it through the magnet\u2019s eyebolt or a carabiner. \u2014 Ben Demchak, Popular Mechanics , 3 June 2022",
"The whole setup hangs from an eyebolt in a ceiling beam. \u2014 Emily Stifler Wolfe, Outside Online , 26 Apr. 2021",
"More than a year ago, an eyebolt holding the swing's bungee cord snapped out of the porch ceiling and shot through Lalia's skull. \u2014 Paul Vercammen, CNN , 27 Nov. 2021",
"Ground clamps attach to cables with an eyebolt or a T-handle. \u2014 Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics , 19 Mar. 2019",
"There\u2019s a short slot in the center for eyebolts , and then perpendicular to that there\u2019s a longer slot that fits over a T-handle. \u2014 Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics , 19 Mar. 2019",
"The Milwaukee has a hefty eyebolt threaded into its handle. \u2014 Roy Berendson, Popular Mechanics , 29 Jan. 2018",
"Past versions of the drill, such as this one, have been used by reef-monitoring teams to install eyebolts to support floats to distinguish different sites with minimal impact. \u2014 Dan Dubno, Popular Mechanics , 9 Aug. 2017"
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": one of the ossified plates in the sclera of the eye that are especially well developed in birds and many reptiles":[]
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"definitions":{
": the range of the eye : view":[]
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"\u02c8\u012b-\u02ccsh\u00e4t"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The construction site is within eyeshot of Ice Breaker, a coaster that opened earlier this year next to Bayside Stadium. \u2014 Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel , 3 June 2022",
"But now, within eyeshot of an international bridge connecting Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez to the United States, a new and much more serious problem presented itself: the coronavirus. \u2014 Miriam Jordan, BostonGlobe.com , 22 Mar. 2020",
"But now, in eyeshot of an international bridge connecting the Mexican city of Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez to the United States, a new and much more serious problem presented itself: the coronavirus. \u2014 New York Times , 21 Mar. 2020",
"This particular station is ringed with concrete walls meant to evoke pre-Hispanic architecture, with the city\u2019s tallest office towers looming within eyeshot of the base of the sunken plaza. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Dec. 2019",
"Right after their meeting, Roy \u2013 once out of eyeshot from Mirren\u2019s Betty McLeish \u2013 quickly sheds his kindly old gentleman persona and skips into a nightclub to hash out a scheme with his co-conspirators over champagne. \u2014 Jake Coyle, Detroit Free Press , 14 Nov. 2019",
"This is painting not about painting, but about her world within eyeshot . \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 29 Aug. 2019",
"Billy parked down the street, in eyeshot of the boxer\u2019s room. \u2014 Greg Bishop, SI.com , 30 July 2019",
"New lodges open within eyeshot of its verdant-covered volcanoes seemingly every month, in order to keep up with demand to see the mountain gorillas, but few have caught our attention like this one, the second from luxury resort brand One&Only. \u2014 Erin Florio, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 9 July 2019"
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"1600, in the meaning defined above":""
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": reflection of light from the inner surface of an eye through the pupil so that the eye has a luminous appearance (as in a cat)":[]
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"adverb",
"noun"
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": something that arrests the eye":[]
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"\u02c8\u012b-\u02ccka-ch\u0259r"
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"first_known_use":{
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": observation sense 1":[]
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"eye",
"sight",
"vision"
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"He wears glasses because his eyesight is not good.",
"the keen eyesight of a bird of prey",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative eye disease, took his eyesight decades ago. \u2014 Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star , 30 May 2022",
"Telling my fingers to move was like trying to open a door using my eyesight . \u2014 Francesco Clark, refinery29.com , 9 Mar. 2021",
"So renaming that part of Wisconsin Avenue right in eyesight of the Russians became important. \u2014 Petula Dvorak, Washington Post , 23 May 2022",
"In some villages along the front, Ukrainian and Russian soldiers face off at close quarters, sometimes within eyesight of one another. \u2014 New York Times , 11 May 2022",
"Or perhaps an armadillo (remember, bad eyesight ) would just walk right into me. \u2014 Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune , 14 May 2022",
"Musk has said in several different venues that his Neuralink brain chip company could one day stop epilepsy attacks, restore limb function, fix speech impediments, cure Alzheimer\u2019s and bring eyesight to the blind. \u2014 Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times , 13 May 2022",
"Back in 2018, restrictions were also imposed to save the eyesight of children. \u2014 Matthew Humphries, PCMAG , 9 May 2022",
"The original Zero truck was designed to make the driver\u2019s perspective more street-level, with an eyesight level of around under six feet. \u2014 Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver , 1 May 2022"
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"definitions":{
": a cosmetic cream or powder in one of various colors that is applied to the eyelids to accent the eyes":[]
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The first item, the Persephone eye shadow palette from Dito Cosmetics, has shades labeled as numbers. \u2014 Allure , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Fanning wore her hair down in loose curls and opted for glittery eye shadow and a red lip. \u2014 Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 31 Mar. 2022",
"The collaboration includes two different eye shadow palettes to wear, depending on your mood. \u2014 Addison Aloian, Allure , 12 May 2022",
"Another dramatic eye shadow choice was seen on Normani, with a bright green shade that stood out against her all-black outfit, which included a show-stopping hat. Leave it to Janelle Monae to pull off the no-hair look. \u2014 Anna Haines, Forbes , 3 May 2022",
"Once again, her hair was thrown up in a simple ponytail, while her makeup look consisted of a slightly smoky taupe eye shadow with a small wing, and peachy lips and cheeks. \u2014 Whitney Perry, Glamour , 12 Mar. 2022",
"And her Y2K spiky buns, colorful clip-in extensions, butterfly clips, and glitter eye shadow are back trending on TikTok for a new-gen rendition. \u2014 Elle Turner, Glamour , 12 May 2022",
"The artist transformed the actress into a pop-art icon by giving her a bubblegum-pink face, ruby lips and blue eye shadow set against a sage-blue background. \u2014 Kelly Crow, WSJ , 10 May 2022",
"My daughters wore bikinis, heels, and enough eye shadow to paint a house. \u2014 Ali Wentworth, Town & Country , 8 May 2022"
